Reading, Writing

May 7, 1985

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — I will not be late for class. I will not be late for class. I will not be late for class. I will not be late for class. I will not be late for class. Try that 500 times. Such blackboard punishments should go the way of the inkwell, a state teachers' union says. The National Education Association of New York says teachers who use writing as a punishment take the fun out of words and ''inhibit desired attitudes and essential communication skills.'' A union spokesman: ''We're more enlightened than that.''